Sentences with phrase «mix of factors»

Given the complex mix of factors that influence where clinical research is conducted, assessing job security and career prospects might be top of your agenda if you're considering a move overseas.

The chart below highlights the wide mix of factors tied to public attitudes across a broad set of 22 science issues.

More generally, what is the appropriate mix of factors one should consider in dealing with these problems?

A variety of factors go into determining your premiums, and different companies consider a different mix of factors.

The ten cantons selected as the focus of the work were chosen so as to reflect a balanced mix of factors including language region, religion (Catholic and Protestant cantons) and urban centres / rural areas.

Despite this complicated mix of factors coming together to create the result we've got, it's possible to distil some meaning at the national level from the final scores.

While scientists and campaigners debate what mix of factors shaped this epic storm, what's indisputable is that much of the disaster that unfolded as it came ashore was the result of human actions and decisions — ranging from where we've chosen to build or subsidize development to how seriously our governments take the need to build with the worst in mind (as always, of course, with budgets in mind).

We have some reasons for hope, but this year is a full loss at the WR position, just like last year was a full loss at the CB position due to another similar mix of factors that led to a similar result.

A complex mix of factors sends grizzly bears into hibernation.

The row over the Thai trials has been fuelled by an explosive mix of factors, including the pace at which the HIV epidemic is growing in Asia, the future of the vaccines industry, and domestic tensions in the US between AIDS researchers, activists and politicians.

But in an email, Steven Sigmund, the coalition's executive director, said the organization is «supportive of evaluations that have a sensible mix of factors, including objective measures.»

But it'd be best if those issues did not obscure the glaring opportunities communities have to limit losses from worst - case weather, whatever mix of factors is involved.

A very useful overview of forest trends in a changing climate — exploring the full mix of factors, from fires and insects to changes in precipitation and photosynthesis — is provided in the federal report, «The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity.»

Here's a «Your Dot» contribution exploring the surprising mix of factors — including data gathered by storm - chasing scientists — that have steadily made America's tornado hot zone a safer place, despite the meteorological hazards that are a fact of life there.

Climate responds to many internal and external factors, and understanding how it varied 1000 years ago informs us about factors that might have operated then (and perhaps about climate sensitivity in general), but little about the current mix of factors.

Tina Walch, M.D., a psychiatrist at Zucker Hillside Hospital, in Glen Oaks, N.Y., says the interaction between a person's living situation and mental health is likely to involve a complicated mix of factors that are difficult to untangle in a single study.

Established in the 2009 - 10 school year, D.C.'s IMPACT evaluation system relies on a complex mix of factors to score each teacher, including both multiple observations and measures of student achievement.

A mix of factors drive local content levels on major projects, including the corporate culture of project proponents, the capabilities of local firms and the supply of skilled labour.

That possibility adds to an already unfavorable syndrome of overextended market conditions, and this mix of factors courts a great deal of potential risk.

A mix of factors is already hurting the companies» ability to control prices and maintain market share: upstart online brands, the growth of retailers» private label brands and a fractured shopping landscape.

That mix of factors, it stated, «is what makes Christians extra vulnerable.

The Frenchman says a mix of factors, including upbringing and education, are behind whether or not a deal is completed.

A mix of factors is contributing to an increasing mortality rate of trees in the moist tropics, where trees in some areas are dying at about twice the rate that they were 35 years ago, according to a far - reaching study examining tree health in the tropical zone that spans South America to Africa to Southeast Asia.

A new gene has jumped into the mix of factors that might predispose people to schizophrenia.

Of those that do, the speed at which the body turns to dust depends on a mix of factors including temperature, moisture and the animals, insects and microbes that happen to be there.

Additional testing of grebes and eagles is underway to shed more light on the mix of factors that converged to trigger the extensive die - off and to determine how much of a risk it might pose to other types of birds.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in

«It's a mystery as to why, but a mix of factors may be involved: genetic susceptibility, low vitamin D levels, environmental factors like smoking or exposure to viruses like the Epstein - Barr virus,» says Robert Keenan, MD, an RA specialist at Duke University.

There's a mix of factors that contributed to my social media following: a few of my posts went viral on online news publications, my transformation photos garner a lot of followers each week, and (hopefully!)

Marketing a successful weight management product involves a mix of factors, from science and regulatory considerations to honing in on a specific demographic.

Other students, like Fisher (who is now a senior at Louisiana State University), are offered admission based on a mix of factors, including race, community service, leadership qualities, test scores, and work experience.

California has identified English learners based on how well they do on the language development test but has left it up to districts and students» teachers to also weigh a mix of factors, including teacher judgment, scores on other standardized academic tests and parent consultations.

But for the most part, it unearthed no cut - and - dried patterns among the states, a finding that underscores the complex mix of factors that affect unions» ability to shape policy and affect politics.

Attitudes such as this, many argue, were part of a complex mix of factors that drove white people to the suburbs in the mid-twentieth century.

Sales of adult, children's and religious books all increased in the second quarter due to a mix of factors including movie tie - ins, a diversity of titles from small and midsize presses, and religious presses recovering from a tough 2015,» said Tom Allen President and CEO of AAP.

That remaining third of the score tends to be where the mix of factors used in the different scores vary the most.

Today's book, Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha, takes a mix of factors, including price momentum, and attempts to show how investors can achieve above average returns.

January is typically a strong month for the municipal bond market, but 2018 began with the worst January performance since 1981, driven by rising interest rates and uncertainty over changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).1 The muni market stabilized through late April 2018, but uncertainty remains.2 The tax law changed the playing field for these investments, with a mix of factors that could affect supply and demand.

Such a mix of factors makes it impossible to accurately predict how any one dog will respond to training and behavior modification.

It was PopCap's first new IP game in two years and has had a slow burn, but increasingly potent sales success which Roberts attributed to a mix of factors including: smart choice of platforms; the use of a free web trial version; embracing a retail release of the game; selling the game online to hardcore gamers via developer Valve and its Steam platform; and, most importantly, good gameplay.

Given the human habit of building in harm's way, particularly along the great waterways of the heartland, what's your sense of the mix of factors leading to the extent of what's coming this spring -LRB-... engineering in favor of agriculture, spread of impervious surfaces, climate change, climate variability...)?

In the first days of 2005, after writing a long team - reported account about the march of waves after the great earthquake off Sumatra, I wrote an essay, «The Future of Calamity,» laying out the mix of factors leading to outsize losses when flood waters rise or tectonic plates heave.

The study charts the extraordinary combination of a sharp rise in soy production and sustained drop in forest destruction and finds a mix of factors at work, ranging from big food companies toughening environmental standards along their supply chains to better monitoring and enforcement.

I would love your meteorological - climatological impression of what you see in this that helps reveal the mix of factors in play.

While the basics of global warming science are now firmly established, climatologists immersed in «attribution» research, investigating the mix of factors shaping a particular heat wave, deluge or drought, are still arguing long and hard about whether there is a discernible contribution from human - driven warming.

On Monday, the BBC published an online opinion column by Richard Betts, a climate scientist at Britain's Met Office, in which he described the perils of climate overstatement and amplified on his thoughts on Dot Earth, discussing the mix of factors contributing to a big retreat in sea ice in the summer of 2007 as reason for care.

The fate of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is determined by a complicated mix of factors, including the pressure changes, with the biggest loss of old thick ice resulting more from a great «flush» of floes than melting, Dr. Rigor and many other scientists tracking the region say.

A mix of factors are contributing to that trend, such as reforestation of large tracts of land and increasing plant growth in newly viable regions (like formerly frozen polar areas).